ARTICLE XIV - PERMANENT MOBILE HOME/MANUFACTURED HOME PARKS41
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APPLICATION FOR PERMIT
A permit shall be required to establish, maintain and operate a mobile home
and/or manufactured home park. The permit shall be for a year, and shall be
renewed during the month of April for the year next following. A written
application for the permit shall be submitted to the administrator. The person
submitting the application will state his name, address and phone number,
the name, address and phone number of the real party in interest, if other
than applicant, and the address and location of the proposed mobile home
and/or manufactured home park. The application will be accompanied with
the required license tax and a plot plan, drawn to scale, of the site of the
proposed mobile home and/or manufactured home park. It will include any
and all adjoining roads, streets, and other rights of way, proposed streets
within the mobile home and/or manufactured home park, the location, size,
shape and identification numbers of the mobile home and/or manufactured
home lots or spaces, the location and the names and addresses of the
owners of all abutting property, location and specifications for water supply,
electrical services, parking facilities, sewage and garbage disposal, base
flood elevation data, and such other information as the administrator shall
deem necessary. The administrator shall investigate the premises whereon
said mobile home and/or manufactured home park is to be located and will
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issue the permit if he finds it complies with all of the provisions of this and
other ordinances of the Town of Wytheville.41 61
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AREA REQUIREMENTS
Each mobile home or manufactured home lot or space, designed to
accommodate one mobile home or manufactured home, shall have a
minimum area of five thousand (5,000) square feet, one side of which shall
front on an internal street, road or right of way.41
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WIDTH REQUIREMENTS
Each mobile home or manufactured home lot or space shall have a minimum
width of fifty (50) feet, except that for mobile homes or manufactured homes
exceeding 12 feet in width, the minimum width shall be increased by two feet
for each foot of additional width of the mobile home or manufactured home.41
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DISTANCE BETWEEN MOBILE HOMES/MANUFACTURED HOMES
Parking spaces for mobile homes and/or manufactured homes shall be
arranged so as to provide a distance of at least twenty (20) feet or more
between individual mobile homes or manufactured homes measured side to
side but in no case less than ten (10) feet between the mobile
home/manufactured home and the individual lot line of a mobile home or
manufactured home space. Not less than 25 feet shall be maintained
between the ends of mobile homes or manufactured homes. However, in
existing mobile home parks with end to end setbacks of 25’ or more, the
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spacing may be reduced to no less than 15 feet, if an existing manufactured
home is replaced with a new or different, longer manufactured home, and if
all the other setback requirements are maintained.
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SANITARY FACILITIES
Each mobile home or manufactured home lot or space shall be provided with
individual water and sewer connections to a public system to be installed in
accordance with the Plumbing Code of the Town of Wytheville. If a public
sewer is not available, the area or tract of land must be suitable and large
enough to install adequate and proper septic tank systems to serve the total
number of mobile home or manufactured home lots or spaces in the mobile
home and/or manufactured home park. Such private sewage disposal
system shall be approved by the health official.
If public water is not
available, the private water system shall also be approved by the health
official.41
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ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS
Each mobile home or manufactured home lot or space shall be provided with
required electrical connections installed in accordance with the National
Electrical Code.41
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LIGHTS
Every mobile home and/or manufactured home park shall be provided with
adequate means of lights at night. Such sufficient lighting facilities shall be
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lighted during the time from one-half hour after sunset until one-half hour
before sunrise. A minimum of at least one 4,000 lumen fixture for each
50,000 square feet or fraction thereof in the park shall be provided.41
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HEATING APPLIANCES AND FUEL
All heating appliances and fuels must meet the rules, regulations and
requirements of the ordinances and codes of the Town of Wytheville with
respect to such matters. Where regulations may not be in effect which are
applicable, then appliances and fuels shall otherwise meet the rules,
regulations and requirements of the American Insurance Association. Each
mobile home and/or manufactured home unit shall be inspected by the Fire
Chief or other designated inspector for the Town when the mobile home
and/or manufactured home unit is placed in the park. Thereafter it will be
inspected on an annual basis prior to the renewal of the mobile home or
and/or manufactured home park permit.41
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WASTE AND GARBAGE RECEPTACLES
Each mobile home or manufactured home lot or space, while occupied by
any mobile home or manufactured home shall have at least one approved
non-leaking garbage and trash container not to exceed 32 gallons in
capacity. Such containers shall be provided with covers which shall fit tightly
and which shall be adequate to prevent emission of odors, the gathering of
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insects, the blowing of contents, or the scattering thereof by dogs or other
animals. Such covers shall be kept upon the containers until the contents
have been collected.41
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STORAGE BENEATH MOBILE HOMES/MANUFACTURED HOMES
Storage under a mobile home or manufactured home will be permitted only
where suitable skirts are provided to obscure the view of any items stored in
this manner. None of the items so stored shall be such as to create a fire
hazard.41
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SKIRTING OR FOUNDATION WALLS
Mobile homes and/or manufactured homes are required to have skirting
extending to ground level with such skirting to be comparable in appearance,
materials and quality of construction to the exterior of the mobile home; or in
lieu of such skirting, a solid foundation wall may be allowed. Such foundation
wall must have an adequate concrete footing as required of other building
construction.4
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ACCESSORY BUILDINGS
Accessory buildings not to exceed 150 square feet in total area may be
located at the end of a mobile home or manufactured home furthest away
from the servicing street or driveway, except that where a mobile home or
manufactured home is situated parallel to the servicing street or driveway,
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accessory buildings may only be located in the rear of the mobile home or
manufactured home. Where there may be a servicing street or driveway at
either end of a mobile home or manufactured home, accessory buildings may
be located at the end furthest away from the front doorway of the mobile
home or manufactured home. In every case not less than 10 feet shall be
provided between any accessory building and the individual lot line of a
mobile home or manufactured home space and not less than five feet
between any accessory building and a mobile home or manufactured home.
Accessory buildings may be constructed or placed on basis of a building
permit, must be permanent type buildings of new materials suitable for
outdoor construction and shall be neat in appearance.4
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STREETS, WALKS AND PATIOS
Any streets, or roadways within a mobile home and/or manufactured home
park must be constructed and maintained in such manner as to be suitable
for traffic in all weather conditions. Streets shall be a minimum width of forty
(40) feet. They shall be improved to a minimum width of twenty (20) foot,
shall be constructed of compacted gravel or crushed stone to a depth of not
less than six (6) inches with a surface treatment, and must connect with
existing public streets or roads. A concrete area 20' x 8' x 6" shall be
provided in each mobile home or manufactured home lot or space, in such
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a manner as to be located along the length of the entrance side of the mobile
home or manufactured home. A concrete walk, 3' wide, shall be provided
from the concrete area to an internal street, road or right of way.41
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ENTRANCE STEPS
Mobile homes and/or manufactured homes are required to have suitable
permanent type entrance steps as provided by the mobile home or
manufactured home manufacturer or wood frame, masonry or concrete steps
to be constructed so as to be suitable for permanent use and so as to provide
convenient entrance and a neat appearance.4
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ENFORCEMENT
The administrator shall revoke the permit for the maintenance and operation
of the mobile home or manufactured home park if the person to whom the
permit is issued or his duly authorized agent, or employee, has been found
guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provision of this
ordinance or the provision of any other related ordinances of the Town of
Wytheville. The administrator shall reinstate the permit upon receipt of
written evidence submitted that the circumstances occasioning such
conviction have been remedied.41
14-12.1
Should the person to whom the permit has been issued or his duly authorized
agent, or employee, continue to be found guilty by a court of
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competent jurisdiction of violating provisions of this ordinance or other related
ordinances of the Town of Wytheville, the administrator shall permanently
revoke the permit to establish, maintain and operate a mobile home and/or
manufactured home park. In the event of a permanent revocation of the
permit to establish, maintain and operate a mobile home and/or mobbile
home park, the owner and/or occupants of the mobile homes or
manufactured homes located therein shall remove the mobile homes or
manufactured homes from such park within a period of 60 days following the
date of such permanent revocation.41
14-12.2
If the owner and/or occupants of the mobile home or manufactured home are
found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of violating any provision of
this ordinance or the provisions of any related ordinances of the Town of
Wytheville, the administrator shall require the owner and/or occupants to
remove the mobile home or manufactured home from the mobile home
and/or manufactured home park and from the corporate limits of the Town of
Wytheville. The administrator shall permit the mobile home or manufacuted
home to remain in the mobile home and/or manufactured home park upon
receipt of written evidence submitted that the circumstances occasioning
such conviction have been remedied.41
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14-12.3
Should the owner and/or occupants of a mobile home or manufactured home
continue to be found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of violating
any provision of this ordinance or other related ordinances of the Town of
Wytheville, the administrator shall give written notice to the owner and/or
occupants of the mobile home or manufactured home requiring the owner
and/or occupants to remove the mobile home or manufactured home from
the mobile home and/or manufactured home park and from the corporate
limits of the Town of Wytheville within ten (10) days following the date of such
notice.41
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